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Last week, 10th Nov 12:27
Dancing With The Stars Week Nine the final five battle it out to avoid being sent home
Dancing With The Stars Week nine and the five remaining couples were challenged to learn and perfom two individual dances, one traditional ballroom and one Latin dance.
First out of the traps was Mya and Dmitry Chaplin with their ballroom performance, choosing a quickstep with the pair surprisingly demonstrating style and technique and no flash gimmicks.
Aaron Carter was next up who even after getting excellent judges' scores ended up in the dance off. He again needs a big score and with partner, Karina Smirnoff suffering from the flu the pair took to rehearsal in face masks. Choosing a foxtrot their live performance though could only be described at best as safe. The judges didn't take to it either, conceeding only that he was trying hard.
Joanna Krupa and Derek Hough, meanwhile came on from last weeks 'high', hoping to maintain their momentum with the quickstep. Joanna's performance though lacked any real verve, while she had great posture her footwork was left lacking. Again the judges failed to be excited by another lack lustre performance.
Kelly Osbourne and Louis van Amstel picked a foxtrot. Although her footwork cught her out on occasion her body position and dancing line helped pull the performance up. Bruno called her performance "light and ethereal.
Donny Osmond has dropped off the pace in the last couple of weeks so he and partner Kym Johnson were hoping their Viennese waltz would signal a return to the top of the leaderboard. But again the routine lacked verve and fell somewhat flat. Carrie Ann Inaba was impressed describing it as 'mesmerising,'.
The latin round, saw each couples latin targeted to a decade. The first pair Mya and Dmitry had a 70's samba The performance was Saturday Night Fever disco themed but Dmitry... ditch the moustache. The cheesy costumes tended to detract from the pairs technical performance which was good beneath the glitz. The judges picked this up giving the pair the first perfect 30 of the season.
Aaron stepped into the 90s for his samba and a manic Aaron seemed in danger of loosing control though fortunately Karina kept him from imploding. The advantage for Aaron is that he can get away with overacting in his fast dances and the judges were suitably impressed enough to give three nines.
Joanna and Derek got a futuristic paso doble but in truth it looked thirty years behind rather than thirty years ahead, the silver suits and wierd eye makeup would have looked more at home on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust. But credit where its due technially they got it right though Bruno desribing Derek as a genius did stretch credability a bit far.Still two tens and a nine kept them in touch with May on the scoreboard.
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